Local dirt track racecar drivers faced a delay in the start of racing season due to coronavirus restrictions.
Rapid Speedway in Rock Rapids, Iowa, and 1-90 Speedway near Hartford, South Dakota, opened in mid-May, and Rock County drivers have been competing at the area tracks each Friday and Saturday.
Rapid Speedway
Luverne’s Colton Arends led local racers last weekend, placing second in the A Feature of the USRA Stock Car class at Rapid Speedway Friday.
Arends placed third in his heat race before starting the A Feature in third place.
Scott Overgaard of Luverne finished the same A Feature in third place after starting the race in the No. 6 spot.
Also in the Stock Car class, Luverne’s Spenser Kalass finished the feature race in eleventh place and Larry Kracht of Magnolia placed fifteenth in the same race.
In the USRA Hobby Stock class at Rapid Speedway, Luverne’s Thomas Kracht won his heat race before finishing fourth in the A Feature Friday.
Cadyn Wessels of Luverne placed eighth in the Hobby Stock B Feature 2 race.
I-90 Speedway
Two Rock County drivers competed at I-90 Speedway Saturday.
Thomas Kracht finished fourth in the Hobby Stock B Feature race after placing fifth in his heat race.
Wessels also competed in the Hobby Stock class. He started the B Feature in the No. 4 spot before finishing in tenth place.
Rapid Speedway – May 29
USRA Hobby Stocks A Feature
T. Kracht Luverne 4th
C. Kelderman Hills 19th
USRA Hobby Stocks B Feature 2
C. Wessels Luverne 8th
USRA Stock Cars A Feature
C. Arends Luverne 2nd
S. Overgaard Luverne 3rd
S. Kalass Luverne 11th
L. Kracht Magnolia 15th
K. Kremin Kenneth 19th
I-90 Speedway – May 30
USRA Hobby Stocks A Feature
T. Kracht Luverne 18th
USRA Hobby Stocks B Feature
C. Wessels Luverne 9th